Steam automatically updates itself to the latest version whenever it is run.

This
is the platform for all recent Valve games. You can find out
information about whether or not individual games (such as Half Life)
run by checking out their respective sections in the database. This page is about Steam only.

When adding test results please specify video card and driver version you are using.

Available natively for Mac OS X and Linux.

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

It's also recomended to install the fonts: arial.ttf, tahoma.ttf, verdana.ttf and times.ttf. Steam will work without these fonts, but will look ugly. You can also install those fonts through winetricks by typing:

env WINEPREFIX="(your-prefix)" winetricks corefonts

Note: Wine should automagically import all system fonts (e.g. TT fonts you may have imported from a Windows partition).

You can also automatically install steam with winetricks and apply the necessary patches with winetricks using the follow command.

The Steam Client application needs both of these Flash plugins to play videos
correctly - so download and install both of them.

Note: Accessing the Steam website from your native browser, by going to www.steampowered.com, will typically give the best user experience for the Flash video trailers.

How to completely re-install the Steam Client application.

To reinstall Steam without loosing your installed games, you need to move/copy the folder (and all sub-folders):

"(Wineprefix)/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps"

... or (64-bit Wineprefix) ...

"(Wineprefix)/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps"

to a safe place.

In a clean Winprefix, after reinstalling steam, you can just move back the steamapps folder (and all sub-folders). Hey Presto! All your backed up games should show up, as installed, when you launch the newly installed Steam Client...

NB This will not backup or restore your saved games!! These will need to be safely backed up seperately.

Troubleshooting

Steam Games exit after any key press

Wine <1.7.32 does not fully implement the MSDN guidelines for Input Method Manager: cross-process/thread IME must be prohibited. For further details see bug 35361. An experimental patchset is available. This will be staged in a future version of Wine.

This is a wine regression exposed by a Steam Client update in 2014. The workarounds for this problem is to disable the gameoverlayrenderer library by going into winecfg libraries tab, adding the library and setting to disabled.

... Or by disabling the Steam In-Game Overlay by going into the Steam Client Settings dialog and match these settings in your configuration:

In-Game☐ Enable Steam Community In-Game

Friends↳ Flash window when I receive a message⚪ Always⚪ Only when minimized⚫ Never

Steam freezes after opening the library

This is a bug that affects some users. At this time, there isn't a solution to fix this problem.It is recommended to reinstall steam and/or rebuild the Wineprefix.

When opening a new window in Steam, that window starts transparent.

This is a compositing-related problem. Try disabling compositing in the settings for your Window Manager.

Steam In-Game overlay does not close on ESC or Overlay key

This is a rare bug and only occur with specific games and only at specific times. There is no permanent solution to solve this problem. You can try to close the overlay by clicking on the "Close the steam overlay" link at the top of the screen. This is currently the most effective solution, but, sometimes the only way is to close the game.

Big Picture Mode fail to open, asking for DirectX.

Until now Steam Big Picture mode doesn't work with Wine. Big Picture mode requires DirectX 10.x libraries that Wine currently does not support.

Steam window is unresponsive or slow.

This bug is not yet resolved. If you're using Desktop compositing, you can disable-it and it will improve steam performance. The Steam client requires and uses OpenGL acceleration.

These are common glitches and there's no fix yet, the best solution in this case is minimize the steam window or close it to the taskbar.

Users of the KDE Desktop can set fine grained Focus Stealing control over applications. It is recommended to set the Wine Steam class to "None" if you have problems with game draw windows not running in fullscreen.

In general Wine draws windows using XServer protocols. These cannot guarantee or mimic the same ordering or focus that DirectX/Draw libraries provide under Microsoft Windows.

Steam Client crashes after user login.

This is an issue related to the 3rd December 2013 Steam Client update. You will need to use a fairly recent version of Wine that has a patch to fix this API implementation mismatch. Development releases of Wine <1.7.8 and Stable releases of Wine <1.6.2 are unlikely to ever support the Steam Client again.

The actual Windows implementation of the Win32 function NtAdjustPrivilegesToken does not match the MSDN specification for the API of the function... Wine versions <1.7.8 assume the MSDN specification is the correct one. It should be emphasised that this is not a bug in the Steam Client - it simply calls this Win32 function and assumes the standard MS Windows behaviour. So future updates of the Steam Client will remain unsupported by versions <1.7.8.

For those experiencing the "Could Not Connect to Network"
problem
often the Windows solution is to delete the ClientRegistry file. To do that, delete the: "(your-prefix)/drive_c/Program
Files/Steam/ClientRegistry.blob"

Note: For most people simply restarting the client avoids the issue.

Chat window doesn't work.

The chat appears to be working but messages are not displayed correctly. Try resizing and/or minimizing/maximizing chat window.

Try to call any friend to chat from the friends list, and the window will show up again.

This bug typically becomes apparent when someone tries to contact
you in the Steam chat. Often when you initiate contact with (an)other Steam
user(s) there will not be so many issues...

Unable to launch games with error: "The registry was in use by another process":

This is a Steam client bug resulting from the Linux kernel caching file operations. You can fix this problem by shutting down Steam cleanly (keep running and exiting steam itself until you get a clean shutdown without any errors after "Shutting down" - watch the console you ran steam from) and then restarting it. Once steam has been shut down cleanly and restarted the error should not occur.

If all fails, start Steam, right-click on the game and select Properties. Go to Local files tab and click on Verify integrity of game cache...

Some file systems support extra sync flag. This should solve the problem. However it will reduce performance, so use with care!

chattr -R +S ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam

Most/All games crash after open or after a short time.

To Fix: Open Your winecfg, go to Libraries, add a new library replace named gameoverlayrenderer and set to disabled, the In-Game Overlay and the Screenshot option on steam won't work.

Steam client crashes when authenticating user.

This problem can be caused by WINE requiring the native ntlm_auth library to be installed (in order to authentic your login). On most Linux-based distributions this library is included in the Samba (server) package - typically this package includes winbind.

If you have this issue then you will see an console/debug error similar to the following:

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated.
Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can
find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

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Steam client window(s) do(es)n't render any text.

Ensure Steam client is launched as follows...

wine Steam.exe -no-dwrite

The -no-dwrite switch can be added to a Desktop Launcher (manually with a text editor).

Try to just cancel and open Steam again. If this don't work, try to increase the priority of steam process with the command:

nice -n -10 wine Steam.exe

(note: this will require you to alter your /etc/security/limits.conf file)...

If that doesn't work, you can also try this:

wine steamTmp.exe SelfUpdate "Steam.exe" 14

If all fails, remove the "(your-prefix)/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/ClientRegistry.blob" file and try to open steam again. nVidia 185 Drivers Series Crash.

If you are using nVidia 185.x series drivers your X Session may crash when
attempting to launch the Steam client. The solution is to upgrade your outdated Nvidia driver.

Note: This is NOT a wine bug.

The Steam Client will not work when installed on an ntfs partition mounted using ntfs-3g driver.

This is a known limitation of the driver and/or older kernels.
Steam requires functionality (mmap with shared write access) which Wine
cannot emulate if it's not supported on the underlying file system.

Note: Linux kernel >=2.6.26 do not have this bug.

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

steam and other hard drives
by tatsu on Thursday February 26th 2015, 9:19

what's the trick to install games to other hard drives when running steam on wine?

it seems that from wine's perspective the entirety of my system is invisible.

trying to place it into the mountpoint of said drive returns "Failed to create folder, this drive is read-only" and of course it isn't.

For the past couple of days it has been nearly impossible to login from a wineprefix where the Windows version is set to XP--nothing happens after clicking Login.

The connection issue under XP isn't a Wine bug. I tested real XP in a VM, and had the same problem connecting, though in Windows I also got a popup message about Steam being unable to connect to the servers.

Setting the Windows version in winecfg to Vista or higher solves the problem.

Current Steam beta hangs after launch in any version of wine.
There is big (1-5 seconds) delay between in the steam windows and response from it.
Steam window cannot be moved or closed, menus are irresponsible.

Can't Open Games
by Vittoria Genovese on Sunday November 30th 2014, 19:28

Hello! I can't seem to play any games. Mostly I try to click "play", but then nothing shows up later on.. even after 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I'm using 64 bit? It notified me that there might be problems if I continue, even after I tried changing it to 32 bit.
Help?
Thank you!

Can't Open Games
by Vittoria Genovese on Sunday November 30th 2014, 19:28

Hello! I can't seem to play any games. Mostly I try to click "play", but then nothing shows up later on.. even after 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I'm using 64 bit? It notified me that there might be problems if I continue, even after I tried changing it to 32 bit.
Help?
Thank you!

Steam monitor crash with certain games
by Xavier on Sunday August 10th 2014, 17:45

I installed steam via playonlinux on wine version 1.7.22 and Installed some of my games. most of them worked but when I installed Skyrim and Burnout Paradise I had problems. both of them start fine but if I wait to for more than a few minutes in the menus or if I try to start a game it will repeat a sound from the game and my monitor will disconnect from my computer. I end up having to force reboot because I cant see anything on screen. I've checked everywhere and nobody seems to have had this problem before so if someone can please let me know if there is a fix to this

So anyone else having problems launching any game from the steam client after the update? Worked fine this morning, saw that there was a client update, updated, nothing worked. I updated WINE to 1.7.17, wondering if it was my older version causing issues. Games still won't launch. (I tried the game via command line without steam--it's an Arcen game--and it worked fine.)

After upgrading from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04 I'm finding an error that prevents me from login into my account and, thus, from starting any Steam game.

My Steam has previously worked fine, it was working ok the last time I tried it (maybe a couple of weeks ago or three). I just run into it today to check if the upgrade broke something... and well, apparently, it *has* :-)

When I run Steam using the short-link as usual it starts OK, the dialog announcing that "Connecting to account: username" pops up and as I have not logged in recently, it asks me to enter my password.

But I cant find a way to get the text inside the input, not via direct typing, nor via copy-pasting the password from outside.

Today i purchased One Way Heroics.
When i run it from steam (clicking the Play button), it sometimes screws Xorg, and the steam terminal always spits indefinitely :
"libpng error: Read Error"
So it's unplayable this way.
If i run the game from another terminal (wine Game.exe) it runs fine but the steam terminal still spits the libpng error.

Using Steam Community without app crash
by Sebastian Loncar on Thursday February 13th 2014, 0:11

I found out a way to use the steam community without app crash. There are to ways to solve it: using the native imm32.dll from an existing windows machine, or make a small patch in the wine buildin imm32.dll source and recompile it.

Steam dies after login
by mzneverdies on Wednesday November 6th 2013, 2:21

Starting today -06 Nov 2013-, after a steam update, my Steam dies right after trying to log in. I'm using latest wine (1.7.5) which ran ok yesterday.
My prefix is not clean -steam, d3dx9, dotnet20, dotnet30, dotnet35 installed through winetricks-, and I'm using Steam Beta update.
When I get some time I'll try a new clean prefix and Steam stable, but my hopes are down, since it seems I'm not the only one complaining (ej: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2186118)

Stuck on Connect/login
by Joni Larsen-Haikarainen on Saturday July 20th 2013, 4:39

If I select to save password the client gets stuck at Connecting Steam Account: [my account name]
If I select not to save password it gets stuck on login screen with only abort button working.
Tried every surgestion I can find. Reinstalled multiple times in a clean prefix.

Thought it might be the login servers that are having problems but no. My Linux Steam Client can connect and works fine.

With the new update Steam suddenly have stopped bootstrapping correctly under Wine-1.5.24 and later.

Now, when starting, Steam client tries to verify the files (just like after a fresh updating), finds all of them to be correct, then shuts itself down completely without messages and/or other signals. Neither bootstrapping log nor console output indicate any errors, it just looks like an ordinary shutdown process.

I've found this behavior under Wine versions from 1.5.24 to 1.5.29. With a downgrade to 1.5.23 everything works perfectly though.

Re-installation of a fresh Steam distribution within a fresh wineprefix have no effect, the problem is still present.

New Steam Versions
by Christopher Cope on Sunday March 3rd 2013, 11:35

Since the recent updates I have to launch steam with -tcp or it won't connect to Steam. I tried a new wine prefix with the same behavior. I have the Linux version of Steam and do not have to do that with it.

Also, on the dwrite issue. You can download --link removed-- and apply it to your wine registry to prevent having to launch Steam via -no-dwrite each time. It will also hold between Steam issued restarts, unlike using the -no-dwrite option.
After you have it downloaded open a terminal in the same directory and run

wine regedit disable-dwrite.reg

EDIT: I was unaware that mediafire links were not allowed. The file contained the following

Bug: Steam window will auto-maximise
by pfftzo on Friday February 22nd 2013, 0:13

I haven't maximised my steam window, because I have the friends list next to it.
But when I launch a game and exit it, the Steam window will maximise itself magically, so it covers the whole screen and the friends list with it.

Steam stopped working after killing wineserver
by Josh Raymond on Friday February 8th 2013, 23:14

Ok, so I was using steam (the windows version, through wine*1.5.19*) and was downloading Fable 3. I did a wineserver -k command without realizing steam was still up, and ever since steam refuses to work.

Steam Client : purchasing new games broken?
by Bob Wya on Saturday January 5th 2013, 9:16

Anyone else tried purchasing games with the client over the holiday season :-) ??

I am seeing a problem similar to a network timeout - when running the Steam Client natively under Windows XP/7. When clicking on the "Purchase for myself" button the Steam Client gets stuck trying to load the secure purchase page? It doesn't crash - but one is unable to complete the purchase... Anyone else seeing this?

I've tried under both 1.4.1 and 1.5.20 - with the same results. I've also tried running Wine under a few different distros to double check the problem is specific to one...

A recent Steam update appears to have broken this feature!! I've previously been able to purchase games directly within the Steam Client when running under Wine...

(I added a space between slashes to prevent appdb from deforming it) Problem is that I'm post 1.5.9 (or whatever version they started using dwrite.dll) and it starts it w/o the -no-dwrite command. I fixed it with this registry entry:

The second problem is that, after running it once, steam changes it back to it's default. This is actually smart behavior to deter malware, but is getting in the way in this case. Still, I thought I would post it anyway (maybe I'll get an even better fix later).

Stuck in Tools listing view
by Zeb on Thursday December 20th 2012, 3:21

Hi,

I have listed the Tools (using the View->Tools menu) but am unable to go back to the installed game list view. I can click on Games view in the View menu, I am stuck in the Tools list.
The native Steam (which has just been released) does not behave the same, so it seems to be a bug with the Windows Steam run under wine.

Noticed that steam can lauunch bash scrips that renamed into *.exe files.
I can launch Anno 2070 from other wineprefix in steam from its own wineprefix.
Need to rename bash script to exe and add it to steam as other game.
When launching steam will say that it fails to start but then game launches.
Wine cannot launch that exe file itself.

I have installed libnss-winbind,libpam-winbind, libwbclient0 and winbind

I have installed the i386 nvidia drivers, and I tried to install steam using 'winetricks --no-isolate steam'. The normal installation windows open up, I click to accept the license, and the steam client begins to update itself.

After the installation finishes and attempts to run steam, it fails with "Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed.'

When I double-click on steam to start it, a window pops up with the message 'Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed'.

I am currently reading through the FAQ, but any help would be appreciated.

Steam windows will not unmaximise:
by Benjamin on Friday October 5th 2012, 14:34

Steam works fine for teh most part, until you maximise a window. Once maximised the windows (including the friends list window) won't allow you to unmaximise them, clicking steam's unmaximise button causes the button to animate, but that is all.. Other buttons, such as minimise, and close, are working as intended.

all games/installed dropdown issue
by Tim Middleton on Tuesday September 25th 2012, 10:00

In the last week or so I suddenly noticed that the dropdown on the game library where you select "all games" or "installed" to filter your list of games no longer drops down. Not sure how long this has been a problem, as I had it set to list "installed" games and hadn't got any new games for quite a while. Now, having a new game, I find i can't change the list filter anymore, so can't see anything but my current "installed" games in the steam client... anyone else experiencing this?

Steam overlay works when running steam from windows partition
by Adam on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 12:03

I am running slackware64-current with multilib and had steam working ok by running it from my real windows 7 installation where steam was already installed. Even the in game overlay works.

I wanted to get rid of windows from this PC, so I installed steam using winetricks and nothing would start. I found out now that this is because I need to disable the overlay, but find it strange I need to do this when the overlay works fine if I run my already installed Steam from my windows partition.

I am using the latest stable version of steam on both installations, and I have checked that I can definitely use the steam overlay by pressing shift-tab while in a game. Anyone have any ideas why this would be happening? From what I have read I shouldn't be able to use the overlay at all.

I have a simple request steam work out of the box for me with these instructions, I'd just like to drop my steam games from windows into the steamapps\common folder like I did so many other times, steam just has to check files and update registry and shortcuts rather than download the whole again.

However my Wine C drive shows empty program files and program files (x86). Steam isn't there, so where is it?

keyboard issues in Precise 64...
by Mariano on Tuesday August 21st 2012, 13:51

I don't know if anyone has the same problems, but either in 1.4 or 1.5.11 (which, BTW, selecting dwrite in the overrides list on wine-cfg, and flagging it as DISABLED solves the problem in this and .10 versions), there is something that conflicts between wine and UBUNTU (12.04 64bits). Recently I upgraded from Lucid where everything related to wine worked mostly fine, but now, most games ignore the L-Ctrl and tilde (~) keys. The Control key is needed in most action games for things like crouching, and the tilde is used to bring up the debug editor (games like FO:NV are mostly unplayable if you don't know how to "get off a rock" from time to time). The thing is, most of my games work under STEAM, and that's why I came here to ask for ideas/solutions.

I've been trying to setup my usb microphone which is a logitech usb desk microphone. The chip itself is a Asahi Kasei Microsystems AK5370 I/F A/D Converter. I can use this microphone okay in Linux apps but Steam struggles.

I select the microphone in the Wine settings under the Audio tab. But Steam still tells me there is no microphone detected. Any thoughts?

I've installed d3dx9 as recommended, but Steam is running incredibly slow when running it in wine, in comparison to the same machine running it in windows. Steam is using 10-40% of system resources even when completely idle and the interface is hugely choppy, even when just flipping through windows. The images load slowly.

Is there any way to improve the performance? I've merely used the automatic Winetricks install, coupled with installation of Gecko and as was mentioned the d3dx9. Still, I feel like there's something enormously wrong, because my computer gets all worked up just running the basic interface. As I said, this didn't use to be the case with Windows.

I've had wine running with steam perfectly for some time now, but recently, after both updating steam and my OS from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 (which in turn upgraded my wine to version 1.4), I get the error "ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5". I have the wine folder on my windows partition (separate from my programs installed on windows, though) and I'm not sure how to fix this or what to do. I've tried re installing but it didn't work. My other games(Crysis 2 v1.0, Assassin's Creed 2 latest version), however, still work. Anyone got an idea on what I should do?

I seem to have the problem that steam refuses to launch any game on a fast computer almost most all the time. It's not related to steam overlay and no information is shown except that the game starts but no window pops up and it can only be killed with kill -9.

Yesterday I finally figured out it might be due to my computer being too fast which triggers a race condition, and I created a simple burner script that seems to workaround launching:

How to SOLVE bug 21770 "Keyboard not recognized"
by Mariano on Sunday March 18th 2012, 9:33

When playing on a VD, after wine 1.3.38, sometimes, some games won't recognize the keyboard, and no matter what you do, you only have the mouse to use. The problem resides in the fact that wine is using a VD and Steam opens a VD for itself when you start the game. The only thing you need to do in order to have the main window (the game) in control, is Alt-Tab into "wine" again. :)

Sadly, there are games outside Steam that present the same issue, but this solution won't work. :/

Games Launching Is Quirky
by Christopher Cope on Thursday February 16th 2012, 15:24

This problem has been with me for as long as I've used Steam. From wine version 1.2.3 to 1.3.37. Steam with say it is preparing to launch the game, but no extra processes are started. I've tried using applaunch and disabling Steam In-Game Community, with no effect. If I go launch the games directly some of them work. However, most disable online play or just refuse to work when launched directly. The thing that confuses me the most is that this doesn't happen all of the time. If I close steam and open it up later it may or may not launch the games. No terminal errors are thrown or anything that would let me know when or why this is happening.

How I do steam for steam games testing
by Maquis196 on Thursday February 9th 2012, 10:32

Just in case this suits anyone the way I do it is to have a /home/maquis196/wine_games directory and create a wine_global_steam directory in there.

Then wineprefix a dir in wine_games (like WINEPREFIX=/home/maquis196/wine_games/wine-steam-gold) and do a mount bind -o /home/maquis196/wine_games/wine_global_steam to the usual Program\ files/Steam in the wineprefix.

This way, you can share one steam install but different prefixes can use different dll's, settings, etc. A symlink won't work because steam is very fussy when it comes to installing/updating games but wont be an issue with using mount bind.

Very very good for testing a game in a fresh prefix without having to backup/restore games which can take a while.

If you get messages like "Completing Installation ... 1%" followed by errors like "Steam servers were too busy to fulfill your request. Error Code (2)" or "Error Code (55)", Steam is yelling at you for these reasons:

1. You are not running Steam from its normal installation path on C:\Program Files\Steam. Go into winecfg, make sure your C:\ drive is configured, and make this path exist.

2. You may think it'd be clever to symlink or something. Do NOT do this. Newer Valve games like LFD2 and Portal 2 choke to death if the folder used to access the game doesn't have certain likeable attributes (unsure what these are). A symbolic link will not fix anything, you will continue to get the same errors. You must move the Steam and steamapps folders into that path for real in order to launch.

I do not believe this is a WINE bug as many Windows configurations experience similar issues if Steam is not placed in the expected path or drive.

Spent a couple of hours struggling with this tonight. Portal 2 seems to run great after this workaround. Hope it helps someone out there.

So, the problem where Wine/steam doesn't detect the mouse release (so the Window keeps following the mouse cursor) still exists in wine 1.3.25. In addition, I now have a problem that occurred some time ago recurring: All of Steam's windows flicker constantly. They disappear (i.e. become completely transparent, as opposed to turning solid black or white) and reappear several times per second.

It is possible to use Steam like this, but difficult - when the Windows happen to be 'invisible', buttons are also not clickable, so it is often necessary to click the same button several times.

In the off chance anyone else runs into the same quirk I did, where the 'account' tab was glitched and didn't show up right, the problem is one of the files in your steamapps folder. Either sourceinit.gcf or winui.gcf, both of which appear to be created when you make an empty wineprefix and run steam for the first time. To fix this issue, basically you need to start from scratch, run steam in wine the first time, then copy everything over to the new wineprefix EXCEPT those two files. If you run steam the first time in a fresh wineprefix before copying over any files, you should see the account tab shows up properly. My guess is something in winui.gcf comes from an old version of steam, so it doesn't show up properly if you copy it over to a newer steam version. I doubt this is related to wine, but I expect someone else out there will run into this at some point given how often some of us mess with different wine folders/prefixes.

Can some maintainer here assign this bug to the application? It's not only TF2 specific. This bug happens not in Steam client itself, it happens in Steam ingame overlay, for every game, in the same way as it happens in most of Source engine games except the ones based on old Source releases like Lost Coast or HL: Source.
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19522

I'm having a strange problem with Steam. When I grab the top of the window to try to move it around the screen, or to my secondary monitor, as soon as I let go of the mouse, Steam will jump to a random point on the screen. It sometimes even goes offscreen, and I have to kill the process and restart Steam to get the window back. I don't use the command to run Steam in it's own window (I think the command is something like "wine desktop=1024x768" or something similar), but maybe I have to? Here's the command the launcher is using:

Installing allfonts with winetricks
by Bobby on Sunday April 24th 2011, 21:43

When trying to install allfonts using winetricks, I got the same 404 and "opensymbol failed" response as a few other people. My problem was that my winetricks script was out of date. I checked the version number on the couple of winetricks files in my home folder; there was "winetricks," but there was also "winetricks.1" and "winetricks.2". I checked the version numbers, and the original one was an older file, while my "winetricks.1" file was the up-to-date. Fix: make sure your latest version of winetricks is named "winetricks" and not "winetricks.". Then downloading allfonts works perfectly.

Problem with Winetricks package download
by Rashkavar on Sunday February 13th 2011, 6:27

Running Debian unstable, Wine 1.3.13, and attempting to download the fonts packages using the "sh winetricks corefonts allfonts tahoma gecko gecko-dbg vcrun2005" command as given in the procedure. If "allfonts" is excluded, the remaining packages install normally, but with "allfonts," after successfully downloading a couple of hundred fonts, it encounters the following error:

This error causes the command to stop. By looking at the error message, I checked the ftp server being accessed, and while the ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ folder exists, it does not contain the file being accessed; instead of "ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb," it has "ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11+squeeze2_all.deb". This is likely an updated version of the file, but it causes problems with the download.

As some fonts were installed and I am quite certain Steam does not call for everything contained in something with such a broad name as "allfonts," I ignored the error and continued with the installation. Installation proceeded normally, and the login screen works fine, but after the dialog attempting to log on to Steam, the program simply cuts off.

Presumably the two errors are linked. Is there some way to either have the sh winetricks command ignore errors or redirect it to this alternate opensymbol file?

I resolve some strange attitude during restoring some of my steam games with wine-1.3.11. The problem appears when the game is downloaded of installed but when i'm trying to play the game steam runs "Completing Installation" dialogue. It hangs for a while then steam says that "Incomplete installation of DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue (or Left 4 Dead 2)"

first game I tried to install Super Meat Boy on the same with help of restoring a copy being backup and it worked well and it still works.

I'm trying to figure how to run games from wine submenu in kde menu. When I try to run game this way nothing happens. So I looked into menu entry and it looks for example like that:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/users/Arvenil/.wine" wine winebrowser rungameid/20820

I tried to run this from console (wine winebrowser rungameid/20820) and nothing happens. Then I tried to run a webpage in same way (wine winebrowser www.google.com) and it worked - a google webpage opened in my firefox. So I tried to run rungameid/20820 directly from firefox and it worked - game launched. But still runing wine winebrowser rungameid/20820 doesn't work and doesn't emit any error. Any idea how to debug this?

if you're having trouble connecting to steam or downloading games try quitting/pausing your torrent client. I have always had trouble connecting, where I have to click retry many times to connect and I just realized that it only happens when transmission is running. when installing games it will say the steam content servers are too busy. starting the torrent client after the game is downloading or after logging in to steam causes no problems.

Tried to install with much google searching and stuffing around I can get the app to launch and I was able to start it once without it crashing, but every other time it opens the screen and crashes. What I tried:

Winetricks...doesn't work in x64, so not able to install most things

Tahoma font: solved the crash after initial load where the CellID: nothing beat our initial best time of 7 MS point message was displayed

Where I'm at now is I can logon, steam loads, gets to the point of trying to load the store, and then crashes to desktop, last error output from wine is about being unable to determine the processor information. So I've given up on using steam except within a VM

steam games wont start up
by elliot on Thursday November 18th 2010, 11:49

im useing linux ubuntu 10.10 on my alienware m11x i had to remove my windows 7 cause it would not start up so when i go to steam steam loads up but when i go play america's army it dose'nt load it wont say preparing to start up america's army like when you start up a game normal i have wine 1.2 and PlayOnLinux that is were i downloaded steam on PlayOnLinux but i got wolfenstien to work the online version but no games wont work at all i followed you steps please help me i want to play america's army so much.

I'm having some trouble with steam and a manually compiled wine. Each time that I'm using a manually compiled wine version, steam will crash when it should get to displaying the login-window (it patches just fine, asks me to install the service if I've chosen w7 as windows version, otherwise skips this step.). It also spawns steamerrorreporter.exe, and the Steam.exe process is still there, but nothing happens.

If I resort to install wine from the ppa, steam works as it should. I've installed all the stuff through winetricks, checked bug reports and everything, but still can't solve the problem. Ideas? Need more info?

The first three are Unreal Engine based games and they hang seconds after starting them (the splash screen might show up at most), whereas the rest are based on the Source Engine (Source Engine 15 Build 4274/4295 aka "orangebox") and fail on starting a single player level, or clicking past Ok to close the motd after joining a server in the multiplayer games.

I've tried using wine-1.3.0, and wine-1.3.1 and I've tried a new wineprefix, and fresh steam installation. I've tried veriying and defragging the game caches in Steam. In either prefix, Steam Community is disabled, and hl2.exe is set to windows version 98. I'm using Nvidia driver 256.35 -- although I suspect this isn't a graphics/d3d problem. My distro is slackware 13.1, and wine was compiled from git with gcc-4.4.4 with CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native".

The games that continue to work are FarCry, Insurgency and Half Life 2 Deathmatch. The latter two running on an older version of the Source engine (Source Engine 7 Build 4044). These games don't use webkit for rendering the in game motds (unlike css/tf2/dods/zps), so the recent changes to webkit in the update _may_ be a point of contention -- although that doesn't seem to explain the UnrealEngine games failing directly on startup, nor the single-player Half-Life 2/Episodes/Portal hanging a second or two after loading a level.

I'll proceed to do my best to debug, and hopefully I can pastebin commonalities in error output. I'd like to do this and hopefully get others here to confirm this before I open a bug report. Thank you.

Hello, I am using the stable version of wine (1.2), compiled from source, running on a custom 64 bit kernel with BFS, ubuntu 10.04 on an athlon 64 x2 5000+, 1024 mb of ram and a 8600gt. I installed Steam just yesterday, and I immediately noticed the ram usage, it uses 130-250 mb of ram, which frankly is too much for a system with only one gig of memory. And it is quite slow. Is there a patch or a tweak that could lower the memory usage ? Or is it just the webkit based browser of Steam that's using so much memory ?

Another fix for "Cannot connect to Steam network"
by Ivan Vučica on Wednesday August 11th 2010, 12:28

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, without any updates (installed yesterday, will update immediately after this)

The fix that involves writing to /etc/sysctl.cfg mentioned in the Howto helped me not the "Steam takes too long to start" problem. It has in fact helped me with Steam's inability to connect to its servers.

Since I did not want to change system settings, I used a temporary fix. (I presume it will affect the system only until restart.) As the root, I ran

When someone sends a message to you and you don't already have a message window up for that person, the message window will show up as a steam icon in the upper left corner. Resizing it does nothing, to fix it you have to minimize it them restore it or close it and reopen it via the friends menu.

I first installed Steam with defaults and it worked just great. I wanted to try first Civ III, but the installer reported "not enough space" - it found less than 1.5 GB, and I had more than 10 GB free on my /home partition. Nonetheless, I deleted some crap, but it still did not work. I then decided to uninstall Steam and try to reinstall on a different "drive". The uninstall went uneventfully but the Steam icon was left on the desktop. I then tried to reinstall, and could not.

On subsequent attempts I am asked "Are you ready to have the Installation Wizard continue the installation?", I say yes, then an "install" happens very quickly, then I get a message titled "Steam has been successfully installed." with "Steam will now continue installation." inside. Clicking "Finish" closes the window, but nothing else happens. Wineserver, services.exe and winedevice.exe die soon thereafter.

I am running newest version of wine, but i am sure somewhere i am messing up. When I click steam it updates 100% then it just sits there on what should be the login screen and does nothing. I dont see anything on my desktop but steam shows up as running on my task bar. I dont have direct X installed yet. I am a linux n00b but would really like if someone could give me step by step instructions on how to do every detail.thanks

When i do some work on steam interface i can't close the main windows or the friends window using the 'x' button.
When i click on the 'x' button the window disappear but after 1 second it reappears. On windows it don't happen...

Yes, you'll have to remove your ~/.wine and start from scratch. Remember to go into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam and move the steamapps folder out (which contains all your games) before you delete it all! After you install Steam again, move the folder back before logging into Steam.

All of the fonts in steam are very aliased and italicized. Which fonts do I need to install in order to get the fonts in the new Steam UI to display correctly? I don't want to use winetricks as I don't like how it messes up the wineprefix.

Steam installs and seems to run until first update
by Wrinkled Cheese on Friday May 14th 2010, 17:00

Hey everyone,

I'm a bit confused as to why steam seems to be running but I get no GUI.

I'm running Slackware 64 with multi-lib for wine 32-bit compatibility. I installed wine and everything seemed to go okay. The first time Steam ran it said updating steam and went to 24% then closed and then came back at 33% and the window colour changed from green to dark grey. It gets to 100% updating but Steam.exe keeps running. Now when I run the command provided in this appdb entry or if I just click on the Steam icon in the KDE wine menu entry. Steam runs, and uses nearly 100% processor, but nothing comes up, IE a GUI. So I tried running the command used by the KDE menu entry item at command line and I get the same thing as if I use the command:

These both produce this outputs as well as a process called steam(appdb recommended command) or Steam.exe(menu item):
appdb recommended command
CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . .
CellID: CSDS returned 165 servers.
CellID: Connecting to 119.167.242.114:27031. . .
CellID: Connect to 119.167.242.114:27031 took 336 MS
CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 33 MS

I'm tempted to wait for a day or so just to make sure it's not doing something that takes a long time in the background.

I am running Wine 1.1.44
I have a GeForce 6200 using the latest nVidia driver, as of a week ago or so: 195.36.24

I had wine running steam and counterstrike source 5 years ago under the same distro, Slackware, although my version back then was 9.0 or 10.0. I am curious as to what I should do to get this to work properly. As you can tell there aren't any errors that I can Google or search for so I'm asking questions and hope someone knows the answer. I can provide you with any information you need.

I tried installing it manually by running the wine msiexec /a SteamInstall.msi. I tried using winetricks but everything ends in the exact same behaviour except the slight difference mentioned above.

Steam 2010 and webkit crashing, Game Icons
by SPAMMER on Monday May 10th 2010, 22:10

Finally fiqured out how to make my steam installation to stop crashing when I tried to access any functionality that used webkit!

You need the Arial.TTF font (or 'corefonts' from winetricks). I don't like to use clutter my wineprefix with redistributables, and extra font files etc. For those like me, know that you need to install this font apparently. Other than vcrun2005, and the Arial.TTF font my wineprefix is quite clean.

Also, someone mentioned that steam is not properly creating desktop icons. After fixing the new steam, I installed portal, and the Portal.desktop file is created, incomplete:

Thanks to an awesome poster at the steam forums, "Hit in the Head", there's a workaround for the steam icon being completely missing.

[Shortened and paraphrased]

Open $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/Public, right-click steam_tray.ico and open it with Gimp. Simply File->Save As, and overwrite the original, with default settings. You can remove the layers you don't like to change the icon to one of the others available. Note the background of the icon is still non-transparent when I tried, but I believe that's a wine bug, and it's better than no icon for sure.

So now minus the background quirk, after the workarounds mentioned in my previous posts here, the only issue I've noticed is the windows sometimes don't close. This can be worked around by minimizing them first, then right clicking their systrem tray entry and clicking close there. Obnoxious, but not a showstopper.